Accidents and incidents with passenger jets are always tragic, particularly when human error is the main contributing factor. In the last several decades alone, there have been many instances of accidental shootdowns of passenger jets around the world.

Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev appeared to ratchet up tension in the South Caucasus by unexpectedly reviving a demand for extraterritorial rights on a land corridor connecting Azerbaijan proper to its Nakhchivan exclave across Armenian territory. But some experts in Baku believe that the issue can be managed.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has resurrected one of Joseph Stalin’s most sinister tools: the show trial, former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno Ocampo said in a statement ahead of the trial of Armenian prisoners in Baku.

Official Moscow stepped up its criticism of the European Union’s Monitoring Mission in Armenia, calling it “anti-Azerbaijani, anti-Russian and anti-Iranian.”

Human Rights advocate Luis Moreno Ocampo published a new blog post comparing political tactics being used by President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan to those used by the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

Azerbaijani prosecutors are set to being sham trials of Artsakh leaders on Friday, including a separate trial of former Artsakh State Minister Ruben Vardanyan, against who they initiated more charges.

Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov announced the halt of the agreement with USAID, accusing it of pursuing a political agenda. The decision followed criticisms from USAID's head, Samantha Power,

Azerbaijan has refused to renew its cooperation agreement with The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said on Thursday, accusing Washington of using USAID to pursue its political agenda.

Russia’s president is said to have blamed birds or a Ukrainian drone for a Dec. 25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan says Russian air defenses were at fault.

German human rights NGOs have issued a joint statement regarding the start of trials of Armenian prisoners in Azerbaijan, warning of a politically motivated show trial and calling for German embassy staff to observe the proceedings.

As is now something of an annual ritual, last month’s COP29 conference in Baku, Azerbaijan ended on a rather shabby note. Actually, one can describe its

Under President Joe Biden's watch, Azerbaijan has been allowed to get away with a series of aggressions, culminating in the September 2023 destruction of the autonomous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.